Re: console on Niagara in 6.0.1
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:31:19PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:51:30 +0000
>
> > 4. Run '/bin/sh -x /usr/lib/finish-install.d/90console' and post the
> > output somewhere.
>
> This doesn't log anything because executing 90console actualy spawns
> debconf/frontend to execute the script.
>
> So I inspected things by hand:
>
> 1) readlink on /proc/$(pidof debian-installer)/fd/0 evaluates to "/dev/console"
> 2) "mapdevfs" returns /dev/console
>
> This is hitting the "Pass unknown devices without changes" path
> in debian-installer/devfs.c:di_system_devfs_map_fron
>
> This code seems to assume that the installer will have the underlying
> device openned, but instead it is /dev/console which it will have.
>
> Code needs to be added, somewhere, to translate /dev/console to
> whatever the underlying device is. Or to detect the serial console
> in some other manner.
You may end up with console set to /dev/console if detection logic
failed and a fall-through value has been used here:
http://git.debian.org/?p=d-i/rootskel.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/sbin/reopen-console-linux;hb=HEAD
Can you post dmesg output from this machine, booted via a serial
console?
Best regards,
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Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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